Patents by Inventor Kazunori Tanaka
Kazunori Tanaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240142255Abstract: A display control device includes a driving plan setter and a notification controller. The driving plan setter sets the driving plan of a vehicle equipped with a display from a departure point to a destination. The notification controller controls the display that displays the driving plan. When the driving plan setter changes the driving plan, the notification controller causes the display to display a changed driving plan, by controlling the display. The notification controller includes an emphasis display enabler that causes the display to display the changed driving plan in an emphasized manner, when the driving plan is changed by the driving plan setter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yota KAMBAYASHI, Tadahiro UCHIKOSHI, Kazunori TANAKA, Daiki MATSUDA, Kazuki ONISHI
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Publication number: 20240124774Abstract: A Cd-free blue fluorescent quantum dot with a narrow fluorescence FWHM. The quantum dot does not contain cadmium and its fluorescence FWHM is 25 nm or less. The quantum dot is preferably a nanocrystal containing zinc and selenium or zinc and selenium and sulfur. Further, the quantum dot preferably has a core-shell structure in which the nanocrystal serves as a core and the surface of the core is coated with a shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NS MATERIALS INC.Inventors: Yuko OGURA, Yuka TAKAMIZUMA, Kazunori IIDA, Emi TSUTSUMI, Masanori TANAKA, Soichiro NIKATA
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Publication number: 20240109670Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device which enables a flight vehicle device to obtain a highly precise image. [Solution] Provided is the control device including an illuminating control unit configured to adjust a light amount of an illuminating device according to an inclination of a fuselage of a flight vehicle device that has an imaging device configured to photograph a photographing target and the illuminating device configured to illuminate the photographing target.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kohtaro SABE, Kayoko TANAKA, Kousuke SUZUKI, Masaaki MASUDA, Takekazu KAKINUMA, Kazunori HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240030366Abstract: The light detector includes: a substrate including at least one light receiving area and a light incident surface on which light is incident; and a meta-lens formed on the light incident surface of the substrate to focus the light incident on the light incident surface. When viewed from the thickness direction (Z-axis direction) of the substrate, the meta-lens is formed so as to overlap both an adjacent region adjacent to the light receiving area and a peripheral region that is continuous with the adjacent region and is a region inside the light receiving area along the outer edge of the light receiving area. When viewed from the Z-axis direction, a non-forming region in which the meta-lens is not formed is provided in a region overlapping a central region of the light receiving area in the light incident surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Hayato ISHIDA, Masaki HIROSE, Noburo HOSOKAWA, Soh UENOYAMA, Kazuyoshi HIROSE, Kazunori TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230384989Abstract: An object of the present invention is to determine the cause of an image defect that occurs in an image forming device with high accuracy while suppressing the amount of calculation at a processor. A processor (80) determines the cause of an image defect on the basis of a test image read from an output sheet of an image forming device (2). The processor (80) generates a plurality of feature images by executing a feature extraction process on the test image. Further, the processor (80) uses each of the plurality of feature images as an input image and determines which of a plurality of cause candidates corresponding to the image defect the input image corresponds to by pattern recognition of the input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Kazunori TANAKA, Takuya MIYAMOTO, Koji SATO, Rui HAMABE, Kanako MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 11756181Abstract: A processor determines an image defect in a test image obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output by an image forming apparatus. The processor derives a vertical data string that is composed of data about horizontal representative values serving as representative values of a plurality of pixel values in each line in a horizontal direction in the test image. Moreover, the processor determines the presence or absence of at least one periodicity set in advance in the vertical data string by performing frequency analysis on the vertical data string. Furthermore, the processor determines the occurrence or non-occurrence and the cause of periodic density unevenness serving as a type of the image defect according to the determination result on the periodicity.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kanako Morimoto, Kazunori Tanaka, Koji Sato, Takuya Miyamoto, Rui Hamabe
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Patent number: 11747747Abstract: An image forming portion applies a bias voltage in which an AC component is superimposed on a DC component between a first carrying member and a second carrying member, and transfers toner from the first carrying member to the second carrying member to form an image on the second carrying member. An AC setting processing portion performs AC calibration to set a magnitude of the AC component of the bias voltage. A potential measurement processing portion measures a surface potential of the first carrying member or the second carrying member based on a target current flowing between the first carrying member and the second carrying member. A drive processing portion executes the AC calibration before measurement of the surface potential in a case where, when measuring the surface potential, an activation condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Kazunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230260102Abstract: An object of the present invention is to extract image defects from a test image for each type by a simple process. A processor (80) generates a first preprocessed image and a second preprocessed image by executing a main filter process with each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the test image used as a processing direction. The main filter process is a process of converting the pixel value of each pixel of interest sequentially selected from the test image into a converted value obtained by a process of emphasizing the difference between the pixel values of an area of interest and the pixel values of two adjacent areas. The processor (80) extracts, as the image defects, a first singular part that is present in the first preprocessed image and is not common to both images, a second singular part that is present in the second preprocessed image and is not common to both images, and a third singular part that is common to both images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Takuya MIYAMOTO, Kazunori TANAKA, Kanako MORIMOTO, Koji SATO, Rui HAMABE
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Publication number: 20230242184Abstract: In a deflector device, a magnet is rotated when a deflector body is rotated, and a magnetic sensor also detects a rotational position of the magnet. Moreover, an interior of a housing body is partitioned by a motor base into a vehicle width direction outside of the interior and a vehicle width direction inside of the interior, with the magnet housed on the vehicle width direction outside of the interior of the housing body. The magnetic sensor is housed on the vehicle width direction inside of the interior of the housing body. This accordingly enables foreign matter ingression from the vehicle width direction outside of the interior of the housing body into the vehicle width direction inside thereof to be suppressed by the motor base, enabling foreign matter to be suppressed from reaching the magnetic sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Kazuyuki YOKOYAMA, Masahide INAYAMA, Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Nobuhiro KUDO, Toshiya ITO, Kazunori TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230242192Abstract: In a deflector device, a deflector body is rotated with respect to a case. A restriction plate of the case covers a divide between the deflector body and the case. Foreign matter is accordingly suppressed from ingression between the deflector body and the case by the restriction plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Kazuyuki YOKOYAMA, Masahide INAYAMA, Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Nobuhiro KUDO, Toshiya ITO, Kazunori TANAKA
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Patent number: 11715192Abstract: A processor identifies an original drawing part that is originally drawn in a test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a noise point in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the noise point by determining a degree of overlapping between the original drawing part and the noise point. The two types of cause candidates are: waste toner dropping in which waste toner that has adhered to a transfer body that transfers a toner image to a sheet, is transferred to the sheet in the image forming device; and carrier developing in which magnetic carrier that has been mixed with toner is transferred to a sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kanako Morimoto, Kazunori Tanaka, Koji Sato, Takuya Miyamoto, Rui Hamabe
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Patent number: 11709899Abstract: A vector generation unit derives a reference feature vector and a document feature vector. A feature quantity extraction unit performs a dimensionality reduction process on the reference feature vector and the document feature vector so as to set a dimensional value as a first feature quantity and derives a cosine similarity between the reference feature vector and the document feature vector as a second feature quantity. A grid division unit classifies documents into first partial regions obtained by dividing a feature quantity space of the first feature quantity, and classifies the documents into second partial regions obtained by dividing a range of the second feature quantity. A training data extraction unit selects, for each combination of a first partial region and a second partial region, a document classified in both the partial regions and sets documents selected with respect to all combinations as training data.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Koji Sato, Kanako Morimoto, Rui Hamabe, Kazunori Tanaka, Takuya Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11693350Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an amorphous silicon photosensitive member, a developing device including a developer carrying member that carries a two-component developer, and a control portion. When a potential difference V0?Vdc between the photosensitive member and the developer carrying member has a first potential difference at which the toner is moved from the developer carrying member to the photosensitive member and a second potential difference at which the toner is moved from the photosensitive member to the developer carrying member, the control portion adjusts V0 or Vdc so that the first potential difference and the second potential difference are equal in value and opposite in polarity, and a first development current |Ia| that flows at the first potential difference and a second development current |Ib| that flows at the second potential difference satisfy 1.9×10?2?|Ib|/N?5.7×103 [?A/mm].Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Kazunori Tanaka, Yasuhiro Tauchi
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Publication number: 20230199351Abstract: A speaker grill includes a diffusion plate, a base, and a support portion. The diffusion plate forms an opening facing in a sound-emitting direction of a speaker and that is arranged on an outer side of the opening. The base supports the diffusion plate at an outer circumference thereof. The support portion is provided at a front surface of the diffusion plate in the sound-emitting direction, having a support surface that covers at least a portion of the front surface of the diffusion plate, and having a plurality of partition walls forming slits in the sound-emitting direction. The support surface forms a virtual surface covers an outer surface of the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki Shibakusa, Kazunori TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230137743Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first, second, and third acquisition processing portions. The first acquisition processing portion acquires the potential value of a charged area, charged by the charging member, on the image-carrying member. The second acquisition processing portion acquires a state value regarding the state of a surface layer of the image-carrying member based on the potential value of the charged area acquired by the first acquisition processing portion and the current value of a charging current flowing through the charging member during formation of the charged area. The third acquisition processing portion acquires the electrical resistance value of the transfer member based on the state value acquired by the second acquisition processing portion, the voltage value of a transfer voltage applied to the transfer member, and the current value of a transfer current flowing through the charged area in response to application of the transfer voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Ryota Okui, Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Tamotsu Shimizu, Kazuhiro Nakachi, Kazunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20230137321Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing member, a first detection processing portion, and an acquisition processing portion. The developing member conveys developer to a facing portion between the developing member and the image-carrying member. The first detection processing portion detects a first development current for each of a plurality of specific voltages with different DC voltage values applied to the developing member, the first development current flowing, in response to application of the specific voltages, through the facing portion including the developer and a specific exposed area, formed by the light emitting portion, on the image-carrying member. The acquisition processing portion acquires a potential value of the specific exposed area based on the DC voltage values of the specific voltages and current values of the first development current, detected by the first detection processing portion, corresponding to the respective specific voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Tamotsu Shimizu, Kazuhiro Nakachi, Ryota Okui
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Publication number: 20230137796Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image-carrying member, a first acquisition processing portion, and a second acquisition processing portion. An electrostatic latent image is formed on the image-carrying member. The first acquisition processing portion acquires the potential value of the image-carrying member. The second acquisition processing portion acquires the temperature value of the image-carrying member based on the potential value of the image-carrying member acquired by the first acquisition processing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Tamotsu Shimizu, Kazunori Tanaka, Ryota Okui, Kazuhiro Nakachi
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Patent number: 11630400Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes image forming units. A controller includes an execution section, a measurement section, and a prediction section. The execution section controls execution of a developer refresh operation in which toner is ejected from a developer bearing member to an image bearing member so that a specific image forming unit replenishes a development device with the toner from the developer bearing member. The measurement section measures respective surface potentials of the image bearing members included in other image forming units while the specific image forming unit is executing the developer refresh operation. The prediction section uses measurement results of the respective surface potentials of the image bearing members included in the other image forming units for a prediction on the surface potential of the image bearing member included in the specific image forming unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Kazunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 11630409Abstract: A processor selects a target sheet from a plurality of predetermined sheet candidates in accordance with selection information that is input via an input device. Furthermore, the processor derives feature information regarding a noise point from a target image that is obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output from an image forming device, the noise point being a dot-like noise image included in the target image. Furthermore, the processor determines whether or not the noise point is a dot-like sheet noise by applying the feature information to a determination algorithm that corresponds to the target sheet, the sheet noise being included in a sheet of the output sheet itself, the determination algorithm being one of a plurality of determination algorithms that respectively correspond to the plurality of sheet candidates.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Kanako Morimoto, Takuya Miyamoto, Koji Sato, Rui Hamabe
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Publication number: 20230075031Abstract: An image forming portion applies a bias voltage in which an AC component is superimposed on a DC component between a first carrying member and a second carrying member, and transfers toner from the first carrying member to the second carrying member to form an image on the second carrying member. An AC setting processing portion performs AC calibration to set a magnitude of the AC component of the bias voltage. A potential measurement processing portion measures a surface potential of the first carrying member or the second carrying member based on a target current flowing between the first carrying member and the second carrying member. A drive processing portion executes the AC calibration before measurement of the surface potential in a case where, when measuring the surface potential, an activation condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Tamotsu Shimizu, Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Kazunori Tanaka